Community Changers

Women's Enrichment Center

Women's Enrichment Center is an outreach to families in the community. They are a local, nonprofit organization who seeks to provide alternatives to abortion-minded women and to lovingly help them. There mission is to promote life by offering help through supporting women during and after pregnancy; bringing healing and wholes to those tramatized by abortion; presentiong forgiveness through Jesus Christ; challenging the community to adopt Godly view of life; and teaching the value of sexual abstinence before marriage.

The Samaritan Center

The Samaritan Center serves the Eastern-third of Hamilton County by meeting this community’s physical, spiritual, and social needs. Local neighbors, businesses, civic organizations, schools, and churches of all denominations come together to minister to people in crisis. Using the ministry of Jesus as a model, over 3,100 clients were directly assisted in 2013. The Samaritan Center also operates a thrift store where the money raised goes directly to providing funding for its services.

Choices Pregnancy Resource Center

At Choices Pregnancy Resource Center, their mission, in obedience to Christ, is to advocate the choice of life-giving alternatives to crisis pregnancies, to communicate God’s plan for sexuality, and to minister to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of their clients.

First Things First

First Things First (FTF) is an award-winning not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening families in Hamilton County, Tennessee through education, collaboration and mobilization. FTF has three strategic goals: reduce the number of divorces filed, reduce out of wedlock pregnancies, and increase sufficient father involvement.

Teen Challenge

Teen Challenge provides an effective and comprehensive faith based solution to drug and alcohol addiction as well as other life-controlling problems. They apply biblically motivated principles to their lives, relationships in the family, the local church, their chosen vocation and the community.

Blood Assurance

Blood Assurance is a non-profit, full-service regional blood center serving more than 70 hospitals and healthcare facilities in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. There are currently 13 locations and 13 bloodmobiles to collect life-saving blood products, used by area patients. Volunteer now to donate blood or host a blood drive for your organization. You can also register as a marrow donor on the Be The Match Registry, or contribute funds to the Blood Assurance Foundation.

Operation Christmas Child

Since 1993, more than 100 miliion boys and girls in over 130 countries have experienced God's love through the power of simple shoebox gifts from Operation Christmas Child. Every year, J103 partners with Samaritan's Purse to involve listeners and church partners in packing shoeboxes. Boxes are accepted year round so you don't have to wait until the Christmas season to pack boxes.

Outlook Women's Services

Outlook Womens services is located in Athens, TN. Their offices are located at 201 N. Hill Street. The phone number is 423-744-3005. Outlook offers free and confidential medical services, one-on-one mentoring and educational opportunities. They are a beacon of hope in and around the Athens area for those facing unexpected pregnancies and frightening or uncertain sexual health issues.

Bethany Christian Services

Bethany Christian Services of Greater Chattanooga has a 34 year history
of bringing families together and keeping families together in the
Greater Chattanooga market. Since 1982 more than 700 children have been
placed with their forever families through domestic and international
adoption. Today we offer pregnancy counseling, domestic infant
adoption, international adoption of children of all ages, Safe Families
for Children and a variety of post adoption support services for birth
parents, adoptive parents and adoptees. We are licensed to serve TN and
GA. To learn more visit www.bethany.org/chattanooga